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She reads in a Pecha, a Tibetan style book.

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In front of the temple of Jokhang Lhasa.

Pecha (Tibetan: དཔེ་ཆ་; Wylie: dpe cha) is a Tibetan word meaning "book", but in particular, refers to the traditional Tibetan loose-leaf books such as the kangyur, tengyur, and sadhanas. Pechas sometimes have top and bottom cover plates made of wood, cardboard, or other firm materials, and are often seen wrapped in cloth for protection. The word pecha has entered common use in other languages such as English in the Tibetan Buddhist community, evident online in discussion forums and software products that include the word in their names.

Pechas trace their history and unique shape back to the palm leaf manuscripts of India where palmyra and talipot palm leaves were used in the creation of texts as early as the 500 BCE. The earliest existing palm leaf manuscripts date from 200 C.E. and were in continuous use until the 19th century.

The migration of India's manuscript technology to Tibet took place around the 7th century, when the scholar Thonmi Sambhota created the Tibetan script from his studies in India and Kashmir (his work is believed to be based on the Indian Brahmi and Gupta scripts). This script was then used to translate Buddhist Sanskrit texts into Tibetan. However, with the lack of traditional palm leaves in Tibet, birch bark was used instead; the use of bark was eventually supplanted by paper.
Tibetan Buddhist temples and shrine rooms traditionally house a complete collection of the kangyur and tengyur in pecha form. These are individually wrapped in cloth and tagged with brocade markers at one end and then placed upon shelves on the shrine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha#In_Tibetan_Buddhism

Tags: Tibet བོད བོད་ལྗོངས། 2011 ༢༠༡༡ © Jan Reurink Tibetan Plateau བོད་མཐོ་སྒང་ bö togang Tibet Autonomous Region T.A.R. U དབུས་ - Central Tibet Lhasa ལྷ་ས། county Lhasa ལྷ་ས། Jokhang (Lhaden Tsuglakhang)(Jowokhang) ཇོ་ཁང་/ ལྷ་ལྡན་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་ Tibetan བོད་པ bod pa Tibetan ethnicity བོད་རིགས། bod rigs buddhism སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས། Tibetan བོད་པ buddhist སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས་པ Tibetan style book དཔེ་ཆ་ pe cha book/scripture/ text ཕྱག་དཔེ་ phyag dpe block print/ headed letters/ writing. printing form script དབུ་ཅན་ uchen put in writing ཡིག་ཐོག་ཏུ་བཀོད yiktok tukö nun ཇོ་མོ། ani In_Tibetan_Buddhism In_Tibetan_Buddhism

Pecha a Tibetan style book.

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Pecha (Tibetan: དཔེ་ཆ་; Wylie: dpe cha) is a Tibetan word meaning "book", but in particular, refers to the traditional Tibetan loose-leaf books such as the kangyur, tengyur, and sadhanas. Pechas sometimes have top and bottom cover plates made of wood, cardboard, or other firm materials, and are often seen wrapped in cloth for protection. The word pecha has entered common use in other languages such as English in the Tibetan Buddhist community, evident online in discussion forums and softwa|re |products that include the word in their names.

Pechas trace their history and unique shape back to the palm leaf manuscripts of India where palmyra and talipot palm leaves were used in the creation of texts as early as the 500 BCE. The earliest existing palm leaf manuscripts date from 200 C.E. and were in continuous use until the 19th century.

The migration of India's manuscript technology to Tibet took place around the 7th century, when the scholar Thonmi Sambhota created the Tibetan script from his studies in India and Kashmir (his work is believed to be based on the Indian Brahmi and Gupta scripts). This script was then used to translate Buddhist Sanskrit texts into Tibetan. However, with the lack of traditional palm leaves in Tibet, birch bark was used instead; the use of bark was eventually supplanted by paper.
Tibetan Buddhist temples and shrine rooms traditionally house a complete collection of the kangyur and tengyur in pecha form. These are individually wrapped in cloth and tagged with brocade markers at one end and then placed upon shelves on the shrine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha#In_Tibetan_Buddhism

Tags: Tibet བོད བོད་ལྗོངས། 2011 ༢༠༡༡ © Jan Reurink Tibetan Plateau བོད་མཐོ་སྒང་ bö togang Tibet Autonomous Region T.A.R. U དབུས་ - Central Tibet Lhasa ལྷ་ས། county Lhasa ལྷ་ས། Jokhang (Lhaden Tsuglakhang)(Jowokhang) ཇོ་ཁང་/ ལྷ་ལྡན་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་ Tibetan བོད་པ bod pa Tibetan ethnicity བོད་རིགས། bod rigs buddhism སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས། Tibetan བོད་པ buddhist སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས་པ Tibetan style book དཔེ་ཆ་ pe cha book/scripture/ text ཕྱག་དཔེ་ phyag dpe block print/ headed letters/ writing. printing form script དབུ་ཅན་ uchen Tibetan uchen script བོད་ཡིག་དབུ་ཅན böyik uchen put in writing ཡིག་ཐོག་ཏུ་བཀོད yiktok tukö Tonmi Sambhota - minister of king song tsen gampo / inventer of Tibetan alphabet ཐོན་མི་སམ་ཏ་ thon mi sam bho Photo story འདྲ་པར སྒྲུང་། drapar drung storytelling photo storytelling photography

Kelzang Darchen prayer-flag pole and prostrating pilgrims, Lhasa Tibet

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There are four large prayer-flag-poles situated with the Barkhor market which surrounds the Jokhang, known respectively as Ganden Darchen in the northeast, Juyag Darchen in the west, Kelzang Darchen in the southwest (see picture), and Sharkyaring Darchen in the southeast.

The Barkhor market itself is the most active in all Tibet, and it is possible to purchase traditional Tibetan artefacts, paintings, religious implements, antiques, modern goods, books, music, clothing, spices, fresh meat and vegetables. Prices are not fixed and you will be expected to bargain.
www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...

Barkor square, Lhasa, Tibet

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The Barkor is a popular devotional circumabulation for pilgrims and locals. The walk was about one kilometre long and encircled the entire Jokhang, the former seat of the State Oracle in Lhasa called the Muru Nyingba Monastery, and a number of nobles' houses including Tromzikhang and Jamkhang. There were four large incense burners (sangkangs) in the four cardinal directions, with incense burning constantly, to please the gods protecting the Jokhang. The Tromzikhang market is busy in Barkhor, and the area is a major tourist attraction.

Barkhor Square and Jokhang Temple
Because the Jokhang Temple has been a symbolic center of Tibetan protest since 1987, the Barkhor has also seen many demonstrations. In 1989, when year the 14th Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize, pro-Dalai Lama residents threw tsampa around the Barkhor to celebrate. After the Central government denounced the prize, residents who continued such demonstrations were arrested. The square was briefly closed by riot police during the 2008 Lhasa violence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkhor

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Lhasa, Tibet

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The Barkor is a popular devotional circumabulation for pilgrims and locals. The walk was about one kilometre long and encircled the entire Jokhang, the former seat of the State Oracle in Lhasa called the Muru Nyingba Monastery, and a number of nobles' houses including Tromzikhang and Jamkhang. There were four large incense burners (sangkangs) in the four cardinal directions, with incense burning constantly, to please the gods protecting the Jokhang. The Tromzikhang market is busy in Barkhor, and the area is a major tourist attraction.

Because the Jokhang Temple has been a symbolic center of Tibetan protest since 1987, the Barkhor has also seen many demonstrations. In 1989, when year the 14th Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize, pro-Dalai Lama residents threw tsampa around the Barkhor to celebrate. After the Central government denounced the prize, residents who continued such demonstrations were arrested. The square was briefly closed by riot police during the 2008 Lhasa violence, what has changed?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkhor